08-16-2016, 09:45 PM
I loved this. On the first read I was trying to follow her point of view, and I didn't know what was going on, why there are so many rose buds and cake. Nurses dressing someone made me think of a baby or a corpse for some reason. Then she's frightened and I was worried it was going to be dark, and that he was evil. Then she has a dinosaur and it's their 65th, and I said "oh," and my heart broke for him. Then I had to read it all over again from his point of view, and it hurt more that way. Just lovely.
It reminds me of my grandparents. Love at first sight, completely inseparable, but she was already starting to lose her memory at their 50th anniversary. He died less than a year after she did, even though there was nothing wrong with him. In some ways I almost think he died first, when she forgot him, and he was just waiting around for her catch up.
--Quix
It reminds me of my grandparents. Love at first sight, completely inseparable, but she was already starting to lose her memory at their 50th anniversary. He died less than a year after she did, even though there was nothing wrong with him. In some ways I almost think he died first, when she forgot him, and he was just waiting around for her catch up.
--Quix
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara